Hey, I've seen this one before. I mean, never-before seen reveals for Mage in Across the Timeways! We've got all of the information you need right here about the new set, which will also contain the first batch of cards revealed alongside the expansion itself.
Yesterday, we had all of the remaining cards leaked, but we will keep making regular reveal season articles for those of you who wish to experience the reveals as they were intended, and it also provides an easier place to speak about all of the relevant cards at once.
Here are all of the cards that have been revealed for Across the Timeways on October 17th.
Across the Timeways Card Reveals for October 17th
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Azure Queen Sindragosa - Its a combo card piece. In fact her entire repertoire of fabled cards are basically just combo because theres zero chance this card sees play in an otherwise normal functioning deck. Both sindragosa and malygos in reality expected to be played or curve and expected to die, with the oathstone bringing them back so you kill the opponent with either cheap arcane spells that youve discovered or gotten via violet spellwing because the only other burn card is the new arcane barrage
Alter time - Play it and pray to get arcane missiles or arcane bolt. Its lucky to be printed in a class that usually dont care about tempo
Temporal Construct - Kinda shit in all but arena. Why would mage play a 7 mana draw card when it has tons of draw cards already?
Faceless Enigma - Its probably shit. There's just no reason to give your opponent a free secret. Just one more mana gets you observer of mysteries, an infinitely better card than this one
Timelooper Toki - Card that wouldve been playable prior to 2018, but sadly Toki chose the wrong timeline to appear in because mage is neither lacking draw, win cons, card gen, or effective finishers, so toki remains a decent though unimpressive card for a class that dont need her. Absolutely broken in arena though, so toki may want to rejig her time piece next time.
Mage. Just fresh out of colossal mage, and into another colossal mage thats made out of dragons. Lets not even pretend that this isnt basically the same play pattern but a little shittier because shaman will absolutely rip them to shreds, and youve got to pray to get some decent arcane spells out of card gen. I mean, what else is there? Youve got 4 cards dedicated to a dragon combo deck, and the rest of them are just random cards that dont fit anywhere. Even the most charitable attempt at building a mage deck with the new cards that isnt dragon combo is a kind of shittier zoo mage that uses toki for value, forgetting that elemental mage cant even get into the meta, let alone this.
I have to agree that this looks terrible to me. There is always the chance that some pro makes me look a fool for figuring out novel interactions, but it does look like you just play slow dragons that are too expensive to really do much if your opponent has any board clear. And yeah, some solid arena stuff, but I kinda left that scene after I couldn’t “go infinite” with run gold anymore.